The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree
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#3Related:
Setback in the "American Chestnut Project" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044498 - Jan 2024 (2 comments)
Genetic engineering was meant to save chestnut trees. Then there was a mistake. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758522 - Dec 2023 (11 comments)
America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754581 - Dec 2023 (176 comments)
TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573765 - Dec 2023 (58 comments)
The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576771 - Sept 2023 (4 comments)
Technology Puts American Chestnut Trees on the Comeback Trail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34181235 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)
Biotech chestnut tree poised to restore lost ecosystems and biodiversity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34143557 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)
Gene editing could revive a nearly lost tree. Not everyone is on board - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32665955 - Aug 2022 (1 comment)
American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621570 - Aug 2022 (155 comments)
American chestnut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333498 - Feb 2022 (73 comments)
The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441593 - March 2021 (86 comments)
Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Scientists are close to bringing it back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846891 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)
American chestnut poised for return to America's forests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855137 - March 2017 (1 comment)
American chestnut trees are “technically extinct” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13478910 - Jan 2017 (120 comments)
Re: The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree
#4IMHO this is a romantic effort, no one can plant a tree species at such a scale.
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#5IMHO this is a romantic effort, no one can plant a tree species at such a scale.
A country of two million people managed to plant six million trees in one day in 2008
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A country of two million people managed to plant six million trees in one day in 2008 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4AI49U/
How many of them survived more than a year?
i imagine most of them, Macedonia is not such a dangerous place to live. /s
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#9IMHO this is a romantic effort, no one can plant a tree species at such a scale.
We routinely plant over a billion trees each year in the USA. Tree planting is a huge industry. We have tractor attachments that can mass plant some species.
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#10IMHO this is a romantic effort, no one can plant a tree species at such a scale.
Sometimes, I just have some view of a city, or whatever, look out, quietly scan the horizon and just muse "every tree I see was planted by someone". Someone said "here, there will be a tree" and it was so.
Small ones, big ones. They're just everywhere.
"See that park over there? Someone put every one of those trees in the ground."
Then, as a corollary, one day, a parking lot has several dozen trees. Next day, they're all gone. Week later, a bunch of new ones are back. Guess the old ones were just getting too big.
Friend recently had to take down a 100 year old tree. Was just getting potentially unsafe.
No doubt they'll stick another one in there, and leave it. It'll be there when they pass.